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LARGE amounts of novel organic compounds are released into the environment by the rapidly growing chemical industry. The main agents for returning natural and, presumably, synthetic organic compounds to the carbon cycle are bacteria and fungi, provided that catabolic enzymes with appropriate specificities, transport systems and regulatory mechanisms can be activated. One or several of these conditions for total degradation do not seem to be fulfilled for certain types of man-made compounds, in particular, the halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons. In this report, we demonstrate the transfer of the TOL plasmid from Pseudomonas putida mt-2 (WR 101) to Pseudomonas sp. B13 (WR 1) enabling novel strains to be isolated which can utilize various chlorosubstituted benzoates as their sole source of carbon and energy.
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REINEKE, W., KNACKMUSS, HJ. Construction of haloaromatics utilising bacteria. Nature 277, 385–386 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/277385a0
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